Richards v. Greene

This was a hill in equity, brought by Isaac R. Greene, the appellee, a purchaser of certain premises at a sale thereof under a trust deed, against Henry G. Richards and Mary Richards, his wife, appellants, to have set off to them, or one of them, a homestead of the value of $1000, in the premises.

The court below found the homestead right to be in Mary Richards, and set off the homestead to her. This was error.

Henry G. Richards was the owner of the land, and he alone executed the deed of trust containing a release of the homestead right, without his wife, Mary Richards, joining therein, or in…